BURNING FATALITY.
WOMAN WALKS INTO A FIRE. (By Ttktjraph—Prm Amciation.) AUCKLAND, Last Night. On Saturday afternoon, Pauline McLaughlan, a married woman, was so badly burned by walking into a fire in a rubbish heap, "that she succumbed a few. hours later.
A spectator states that he saw the woman approach the heap of burning rubbish.' She stood still about ten minutes, and then went closer and watched, the smouldering debris for about three quarters of an hour, after which she stirred it with her boot until her dress caught fire. She screamed: -'Jack! Jack!" but apparently made no effort to extinguish her burning clothing or get away from the fire. The looker-on extinguished the flames with an overcoat. Others who witnessed the affair told the police that the act appeared to be deliberate.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 December 1913, Page 6
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133BURNING FATALITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 December 1913, Page 6
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